Opportunity Quotes - Page 17

• An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

  Robert South

  Obstacles, Oppurtunity

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• Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Men, Doors, Get Up

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• I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

  James M. Barrie

  Life, Drinking, Knows

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• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Writing, Ability

  "Have You Ever Noticed? : The Wit and Irony of Every Day Life". Book by Joe Moore, 1985.

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• Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand that your struggle may be an opportunity for advancement and promotion. The very thing you are fighting against so tenaciously may be the springboard that catapults you to a new level of excellence. Your challenges may become your greatest assets.

  Joel Osteen

  Struggle, Fighting, Challenges

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• It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Skills, Networking

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• Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Smart, Addiction, Life Wisdom

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• Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Fields

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• Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

  Cotton Mather

  Second Chance, Compassion, Talent

  Cotton Mather (1825). “Essays to Do Good”, p.69

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

  Golda Meir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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• Here's an encouraging word for someone tonight - don't think you're not doing what God called you to do just because things don't seem as glamorous as you thought they would be. If you are a woman who honors God right where you are, you are in ministry. Keep being obedient, keep looking for the next open door of opportunity, and above all else hold closely to our Lord.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Thinking, Doors, Encouraging Words

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 27, 2015

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• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

  James F. Byrnes

  Life, Happiness, Death

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• The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Science, Men

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Literature, Tardiness

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• I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspirational, Music, Twelve

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Inspirational, Heart, Window

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.83, tredition

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• If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

  Anchee Min

  Rivers, Want, Boat

  Anchee Min (2001). “Becoming Madame Mao”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

  Mitch Albom

  Choices, Heaven, Judgment

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• Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

  James C. Collins

  Financial, Midst, Advantage

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• You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

  Johnny Cash

  Mistake, Knowing, Goal

  "Music's Man in Black". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Achievement, Use, Today

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• In every crisis, if you look carefully, you will spot an opportunity. My insistence is on finding and seizing that opportunity. I never try to side-step a crisis. Rather, the more monstrous the crises, the more I am tempted to rush at it, grasp it by the horns and man-oeuvre it until it gives me what I want

  Verghese Kurien

  Men, Giving, Trying

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• Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, People, Decision

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